Both women were celebrated at the award ceremony in Sweden for overcoming oppression.

Makeba's records were banned in South Africa in 1963 after she testified before the UN Committee Against Apartheid.

King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prizes

South African archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu told Makeba: "You inspired and electrified black township audiences
and later wowed international audiences as you made them learn exotic click sounds."

Gubaidulina has been composing since 1963. She was praised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music for her "intensely expressive and deeply personal musical idiom".

Gubaidulina studied at the Moscow Conservatory starting in 1954 and in 1975 co-founded the Astreya Ensemble.

The ensemble specialised in improvising on rare Russian, Caucasian, Central Asian and East Asian folk music and ritual instruments.